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Jean Nouvel and Fondation Cartier mark 40th anniversary with new building announcement

2024-09-17T16:34:00-04:00

Jean Nouvel has put forth a new plan for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain in Paris. The adaptive reuse project, which was announced Tuesday by the 40-year-old private foundation, will take shape within an existing Haussmann-era building on the Place du Palais-Royal across from the Louvre for the end of 2025.

Novel’s effort will address the current architecture's urban context while opening up the former Louvre des Antiquaires facility to the Parisian public in a whole new way.

Photo: © Martin Argyroglo

First and foremost, this will be a space dedicated to what the Fondation Catier’s founder Alain Dominique Perrin called the "transversality" of art-making. A total of 6,500 square meters (or, 69,965 square feet) will be available for a flexible layout of exhibitions. The space is augmented by five mobile platforms that allow the building’s surface areas to be modified and reconfigured into a layered series of vertical spaces up to 11 meters (36 feet) high.

Photo: © Martin ...

Jean Nouvel designs 'dazzling and lasting' kitchen for Reform

2021-09-01T08:54:00-04:00

Jean Nouvel has collaborated with Danish design company Reform on a new kitchen unit, the first designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Described as “tight and minimalist, yet characteristically dazzling and lasting,” the kitchen is defined by an understated, art deco design language. The kitchen is available in black or untreated metal, both featuring a monochrome design activated by diffuse reflections across their surface.

Image: Reform / Jean Nouvel

The kitchen is constructed of steel imbued with vertical ridges, finished in a high gloss, reflective surface. The countertops are available in stainless steel with gray and black Fenix laminate, complimenting and accentuating the unit’s reflectivity.

Image: Reform / Jean Nouvel

“Jean Nouvel and Reform occupy different ends of the design spectrum,” Reform said in a statement. “Where Jean Nouvel concerns himself with creating ‘visual landscapes’, Reform is dedicated to delivering extraordinary, yet accessible kitchen desig...

Construction update: Jean Nouvel's Hekla Tower for the La Défense district in Paris

2021-07-23T19:03:00-04:00

Jean Nouvel’s Tour Hekla development in Paris’ La Défense financial district is nearing completion after construction began in late 2018.

The 49-story building represents the Pritzker winner’s third attempt to build in La Défense after designs in 1989 and 2008 went unrealized owing to engineering difficulties and economic concerns. Now, with an approval behind them, the team at Ateliers Jean Nouvel has combined with developers Hines and AG Real Estate to plan 76,000 square meters of new office space that will allow nearly 5,800 workers flexibility and added green space.

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According to Nouvel: "I envisioned a prismatic composition that would create and re-create an array of polychrome brise-soleils where metal and glass, light and latitudes, the transparent and the opaque co-exist. The uppermost floors, laid out in triplex, create a landscaped highpoint in total contrast to the horizontal transition to s...

Phase one of Jean Nouvel's Ecuadorian residential complex is underway

2020-12-11T14:01:00-05:00

In the mountains of Ecuador's Cymbayá valley stands Jean Nouvel's latest residential project, Aquarela. In collaboration with local architecture developer Uribe Schwarzkopf, a new complex will transform the area into nine residential spaces.

Initial construction began in 2017, and the 136,580-square meter project is warping up phase one of its development. The 650 unit project aims to "echo" the surrounding environment with its lush greenery overflowing the stone covered balconies. The project team worked with Uribe Schwarzkopf to maintain their sustainability focus by following an "eco-efficiency matrix dictating the conscious use of materials to generate the least possible impact on the environment."

Image courtesy of Ateliers Jean Nouvel

The design team explains the new residential complex will "create harmony between the building and the physical features of the landscape rather than disrupt the valley's ...

Jean Nouvel’s 53 West 53 supertall in New York City nears completion

2020-04-23T20:58:00-04:00

As work on the 1,050-foot-tall 53 West 53 tower designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel in New York City moves toward completion, crews have made progress installing the multicolored aluminum panel cladding that wraps the tower’s stacked pinnacles.

The 53-story tower is attached to the Museum of Modern Art—“Purchasers will receive title to a special Benefactor MoMA membership, affording many substantial museum benefits and privileges,” a press release reads—and features 145 luxury residences.

Interior view of the building’s shared swimming pool. Photo courtesy of Hayes Davidson.

Designed with expressed diagrid structural elements and a sharply tapered form, the tower offers a collection of condominiums ranging in configuration from one to five-bedrooms with the largest units taking up an entire floor of the tower and a series of duplex penthouses capping the building. The penthouse units, according to marketing materials, are accessed via private elevator bays.

A construction photo relea...

Jean Nouvel sues to stop €170.6 million fine for late delivery of Paris Philharmonie

2019-10-23T19:35:00-04:00

French architect Jean Nouvel is moving to sue the Paris Philharmonie following a 2017 ruling against the architect that levied a €170.6 million fine on him for delivering the the group's new €386 million performance hall project late and extremely over budget.

View of the building's distinctive stainless steel metal panel-wrapped entry. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Ninaras.

The project, which opened in 2015, was originally budgeted to come in at €173 million, but was delivered more than two years late due to construction delays and on-site design changes that Nouvel says "martyred" and "sabotaged" the project.

According to a report in The Guardian, Nouvel's lawyers explained that the fines are "'unprecedented in the world of architecture' and amounted to a death sentence for Nouvel’s studio."

View of the Philharmonie's performance hall. Image courtesy of Flickr user Forgemind Archimedia.

Nouvel's studio, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, according to the report, added that the claim being ...

Jean Nouvel and leading French architects call massive Gare du Nord overhaul in Paris 'unacceptable'

2019-09-05T01:00:00-04:00

A group of leading French architects have denounced a plan to renovate the Gare du Nord, one of Paris’s main train stations, calling the designs that would turn the station into a glassy, mammoth, restaurant-filled shopping mall “indecent,” “absurd” and “unacceptable.”

Plans to drastically expand and modernize Paris's foremost train station were unveiled in 2018 with a commitment to meet the increased travel volume during the Olympic Summer Games in 2024 and cope with the more complex arrival procedures of British nationals in the post-Brexit era.

An open letter signed by leading architectural figures, including Pritzker Prize laureate Jean Nouvel, now sharply rebukes the renovation plan.

Image: Valode et Pistre.

"Forcing hundreds of thousands of people to walk through commercial spaces becomes unbearable when this gift to trade goes with long and unnecessarily complicated journeys," recites the New York Times a section of the letter which was published in Le Monde this week. "This project is unacceptable and we demand a rethink from floor to rafters."

Jean Nouvel's new residential tower in Lyon, France: Love it or hate it?

2019-09-03T13:30:00-04:00

Along the banks of the Rhône and Saône rivers in Lyon stands an unmissable new tower designed by the famed architect Jean Nouvel. The 16-story building's pastel-colored facades and angular parapet present a stark contrast to the tower's more traditional industrial and residential apartment block neighbors.

The neighborhood of La Confluence is transforming into an area filled with contemporary architecture, quite a change from its history as a formerly industrial area. Amid this graying backdrop, the new residential tower, called Ycone, gently adds a tone of color and material richness.

Image © C. Morel Journel/Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Image © Guillaume Perret/Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Nouvel has shared with the media, “the result, seen from outside, will depend on the set of constraints that get revised, adjusted, and embellished, if possible, by the story that’s brought us here.”

Stephan Novakovic of Azure Magazine notes: "Compared to the drama of many of Nouvel’s recent projects–including ...

'A tattooed museum:' Jean Nouvel on his design for the National Museum of Qatar

2019-03-29T13:24:00-04:00

[...] the museum site is surrounded by the urban landscape of a modern city, but it still remains under the influence of the desert and the sea, the French architect tells The Art Newspaper in an interview in his Paris studio. Hence his choice of a design inspired by the desert rose, a flower-like cluster of gypsum crystals, which he sees as the “most powerful symbol of the desert, and the influence of wind, time and water”.

Interviewed by The Art Newspaper, Jean Nouvel talks about his design process that lead to the creation of the monumental National Museum of Qatar which opened in the capital city of Doha this week. "The place has become a pedestal for images, a sort of transmitter, a tattooed museum," Nouvel explains.

"Asked about the welfare of migrant construction workers, an issue which has drawn international scrutiny in the run-up to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Nouvel says that his team checked that there were decent working and living conditions for employees of the museum building project."

See the project in detail here.

Photo: Iwan Baan.

Jean Nouvel's “desert rose” National Museum of Qatar opens to the public

2019-03-28T15:32:00-04:00

Following over a decade of planning, the National Museum of Qatar finally opened its doors to the public today. Designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, the 560,000 square-foot museum was built with a complex structure of interlocking curved discs and cantilevered angles, which was inspired by the rose-like, crystallized formations from the desert. The building's sand-colored concrete reflects its desert environment so that it appears to emerge from the ground.

Photo: Iwan Baan.

A central court called the Baraha sits within the museum's ring of galleries and will serve as an outdoor gathering space for cultural events. Inside, this structure of interlocking disks continues and creates a variety of irregularly shaped volumes.

View of the NMoQ and the restored historic Palace of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani. Photo: Iwan Baan.

View of the restored historic palace. Photo: Iwan Baan.

A 1.5-kilometer ga...

Jean Nouvel's controversial 53 West 53rd Street residential skyscraper nears completion

2019-01-03T16:21:00-05:00

Last week, the final piece of the third and highest apex of Jean Nouvel’s first residential skyscraper was anchored and installed over Midtown. 53 West 53rd Street now stands 1,050 feet tall, and is currently the 7th-tallest skyscraper under construction in New York City.

If the introduction of 432 Park Avenue, the 1,300-foot-tall Rafael Viñoly and SLCE Architects-designed apartment tower wasn't a jarring enough addition to the New York skyline, the completion of a controversial second building will soon normalize the movement towards ultra-tall residential living.

Photo by Giles Ashford, via New York YIMBY

Across from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Jean Nouvel's 53 West 53rd Street apartment tower is nearly complete. At 1,050 feet tall, it is currently the 7th tallest building under construction in the city. While not the tallest of the supertall that are coming to define New York City's skyline, it stands as a unique triumph for the French architect and a bold addition to the MoMA block. Below is a rendering of the building from when it was first proposed over 13 years ago.

Rendering of 53 West 53rd Street, 2006.

53 West 53rd Street is expected to be complete by the end of the year.

An Open Letter to Jean Nouvel

2018-12-21T15:15:00-05:00

All architects must be fully responsible for the political conditions and consequences of the projects they accept; any position that would make them only an executant constitutes an insult to their function and their ability to act.

"This Monday, we were many in Algeria, in France, and elsewhere to be shocked when we learned that the Wilaya (prefecture) of Algiers had signed a convention with the region of Île-de-France (Paris’ region) whose President is a conservative Republican politician, and French architect Jean Nouvel to “revitalize” Algiers’ Casbah. The Casbah before being a UNESCO world heritage site is one of the most important sites of the anti-colonial history, as well as the home of thousands of residents who had no say in this decision. Three of us decided to write an open letter to him, asking him to renounce this commission, as part of what we believe is our strategy and our legitimacy (only one of us is from Algiers) from the Northern side of the Mediterranean Sea — we leave it to Algerians to form their own strategy against the Wilaya’s decision if they decide to do s,o and we will bring them the support they will ask from us in that case. 410 people all around the world (including from the Cas...

Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar to open in March 2019

2018-11-06T13:58:00-05:00

The National Museum of Qatar, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, is being inaugurated on 28 March 2019 [...] Nouvel, who also designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi, drew inspiration from the crystalline forms that emerge in the desert as the basis for his design with curved discs, intersections and cantilevered angles.

Aerial photo. Photo: Iwan Baan

"The architectural study which initially was coupled with the programmatic study," explains the project description on Ateliers Jean Nouvel's website, "brought to light the underlying paradox of this project: to show what is hidden, to reveal a fading image, to anchor the ephemeral, to put the unspoken into words, to reveal a history which has not had the time to leave a mental imprint; a history that is a present in flight, an energy in action. The National Museum of Qatar is proof patent of how intense this energy is."

Model of the sprawling museum campus. Image: Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Video: Jean Nouvel on making 53W53 a 'New York City building'

2018-06-26T19:17:00-04:00

The architect behind 53 West 53rd wanted the tower to be synonymous with New York City, to be a building that couldn’t easily be slipped into another skyline. “A worldwide catastrophe today is the number of buildings that are parachuted because they were preconceived. Offices, housing, shopping malls all look the same,” Jean Nouvel told The Real Deal, translated from French.

Mini video interview with 53W53 'MoMA Tower' architect Jean Nouvel, produced by The Real Deal.

53W53: Jean Nouvel's "New York" Building. Video via The Real Deal on YouTube.

The 1,050-foot luxury tower topped out a few days ago and ranks now—along with Renzo Piano/FXFOWLE's New York Times Building and the iconic 1930 Chrysler Building—as NYC’s sixth tallest building.

Jean Nouvel's MoMA luxury tower 53W53 tops out at 1,050 feet tall

2018-06-15T15:39:00-04:00

Back in January, the Jean Nouvel-designed MoMA tower was on the heels of reaching its full 82-story height and now, that milestone has been accomplished. Last week, the long-awaited supertall, named 53W53, topped out and it now stands at 1,050 feet tall, tying with the New York Times building and the Chrysler Building as the city’s sixth tallest building.

Jean Nouvel's ultra-luxurious MoMA tower 53W53 is now topped out to its full height at 1,050 feet. Once completed, the tower will include 145 residential units designed by Thierry Despont, amenities, and new MoMA galleries and a restaurant that are expected to open in 2019. You can check out recent construction photos of the tower on the blog Field Condition.

A failure "in truth-telling"

2017-12-03T14:32:00-05:00

Starchitecture is out of fashion these days, but it can still produce visual wonders. The look of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel, might be described as Arabic-galactic. In the form of an immense, filigreed gray half-sphere resting on a low base infiltrated by water channels, it could pass as a spaceship, an unfinished mosque or a Venetian pavilion set on the edge of the Persian Gulf.

Holland Cotter reviews the new building and collection/inaugural installation, of the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi opens

2017-11-07T15:00:00-05:00

The Louvre Abu Dhabi has finally opened its doors a decade after the agreement between the French and Emirati governments was signed to establish the mega-museum on Saadiyat Island. [...] An underwhelming entrance via a nondescript car park might be improved in years to come by an adjoining garden. “It should appear in a few years,” Nouvel said, adding that this was dependent on funding.

The video above shows the installation of Giuseppe Penone’s sculpture ‘Leaves of Light’ and the beautiful movement of the spots of light coming through the structure's massive dome.

Also watch Jean Nouvel describe his design for the "first universal museum in the Arab world" in a brief video interview here.

Jean Nouvel rejects accusations of exploitation at Louvre Abu Dhabi

2017-09-25T15:31:00-04:00

The French architect Jean Nouvel has defended his Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, a massive domed complex that opens in November, from accusations it was built by exploited and abused migrant workers. [...] In an interview as the finishing touches are put to the colossal construction, the architect dismissed accusations over exploited workers as an “old question” and insisted conditions for those building the museum were better than for some employed in Europe.

"A 2015 a Human Rights Watch report," The Guardian explains, "suggested migrants working on the Louvre museum and neighbouring Guggenheim, part of a £18bn 'cultural hub' on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, were subjected to conditions amounting to forced labour including summary arrest and deportation if they complained."

Nouvel insists on having inspected the workers living quarters at the beginning of the project, resulting in no concerns: "We saw no problem."

Louvre Abu Dhabi's "rain of light" concept © Louvre Abu Dhabi, Photography: Mohamed Somji

Widespread human rights abuses of migrant laborers building the Gulf region's megaprojects have repeatedly been reported over the past years.

New images of Jean Nouvel's posh, MoMA-integrated luxury condo tower 53W53

2017-09-12T19:04:00-04:00

As the brand-new rendering above shows, the luxury condo tower designed by Jean Nouvel will boast an unusual amenity: floors 2, 4 and 5 of 53W53 will serve as new gallery levels for the Museum of Modern Art when construction is completed. Additionally, according to a fact sheet, "benefactor W53 MoMA membership runs with each residence, and includes curated benefits and the potential for the building to host private events in the museum's sculpture garden." The tower, which is slated to top out at 1,050 feet, will be home to 145 residences ranging in size from one to five bedrooms, with a few private-elevator-accessible penthouse suites.

Images above and below: Hayes Davidson

No two condos will have the same layout, thanks to the combination of Jean Nouvel's self-described "diagrid," which refers to the tower's pronounced exterior structural system, and the tapering design itself, which precludes repetitive formats. The interiors of each condo are being designed by Thierry Despont, a...

New photos of Louvre Abu Dhabi appear on Twitter

2017-08-23T21:01:00-04:00

Mr Pouille posted pictures of the museum's exterior, including its 7,000-tonne dome, which shelters many of the museum's gallery spaces while creating a microclimate for its internal plaza areas. They also show the Louvre Abu Dhabi's concrete beach, whose steps have been designed to act as an amphitheater-like public gathering space and viewing platform, just opposite the main museum complex.

Ludovic Pouille, the social media-savvy French ambassador to the UAE, has posted photos from his recent visit of Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi on Twitter.

The opening of the museum is projected to take place later this year.

Winners, Whiners and Wine Boxes: Paul Revere Williams' posthumous Gold Medal, Jean Nouvel's legal woes and BIG's LA River project, on Archinect Sessions #92

2016-12-15T18:16:00-05:00

On this episode, we discuss the biggest news items of the past week, covering: the political bent to the AIA's Gold Medal being awarded posthumously to Paul Revere Williams; Jean Nouvel's legal battle over his "defiled" Paris Philharmonie; and BIG's new proposal for a giant, riverside mixed-user in LA's Arts District.

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2017 AIA Gold Medal posthumously awarded to Paul Revere Williams — the first African-American recipient

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Jean Nouvel's court battle over the Philharmonie continues

2016-12-09T14:33:00-05:00

Taking the view that the owner of the Philharmonie had modified and thus defiled his architectural work, Jean Nouvel had sued ... asking the court to order the owner to perform all works necessary for the restoration of his work so as to comply with the architectural plans he had initially drawn. [...] The case at hand renews the debate on the difficulties of granting remedies which constitute an acceptable way to balance the proprietor's rights and the moral rights of architects.

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Jean Nouvel's prefab 'Simple' home can be reconfigured from the inside out

2016-10-21T18:20:00-04:00

The modular, prefab 'Simple' house took only two days to build, and is now installed in Paris' Tuileries Garden, part of the FIAC art fair. Nouvel affectionately referred to Simple as "a mobile home that stays still," describing the moveable windows and partitions within the structure.

Produced with Revolution Precrafted, a prefab company producing "limited-edition" properties, the structure is made of lightweight aluminum exterior panels, with wood and foam interior lining. "All of the essential notions relating to housing must be condensed into a single object that can be built very quickly and inhabited by one, two, three or four people within the same volume," said Jean Nouvel of the home.

Ranging in designs from 40-160-square-meters, versions of the Simple house are available to purchase from Revolution, but for now the home will exist simply as a pavilion on the Tuileries grounds until October 28.

Check out more photos in the gallery below.

h/t The Spaces

A new documentary follows Jean Nouvel as he traverses the globe

2016-10-14T13:35:00-04:00

“Every project is an adventure, is a passion,” states Jean Nouvel in a new documentary that follows the Pritzker Prize-winning architect as he travels around the world. The fifteen-minute film, titled Jean Nouvel: Reflections, includes reflections by Nouvel on the major achievements of his career, from the Institut du Monde Arabe to the Doha Tower.

With stylish cinematography and editing, the documentary begins with a meditation on the early influences of Nouvel’s work, notably the events of Paris in May 1968. It shows the architect sketching out his designs and working on site.

You can watch the full movie here:

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Jean Nouvel's museum extension plans narrowly rejected in Geneva

2016-03-02T14:04:00-05:00

The people of Geneva have narrowly rejected a controversial plan to extend and renovate the city’s Musée d’Art et d’Histoire by the French architect Jean Nouvel. The “non” camp won the public vote on 28 February with 54%. Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris designed the planned extension, which was approved by Geneva’s municipal council last May, in collaboration with the local firms Architectures Jucker and DVK Architectes.[...] The council must now launch a new competition for the museum.

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Jean Nouvel in NYMag profile: "I create a film in my head."

2015-07-01T13:14:00-04:00

Lunch is an important ritual in his workday, a discussion lubricated by copious amounts of wine. Often, it’s the first time his staff gets to see him, since he spends mornings in solitude. “I wake up, perform my little ablutions, then get back into bed with my eye mask on and my earplugs in, and I work. I imagine. I visualize. I create a film in my head.”

The Grand Monsieur of French architecture talks openly to New York magazine's Justin Davidson about current projects — like the Louvre Abu Dhabi, National Museum of Qatar, National Art Museum of China, and the 53 West 53rd Street "MoMA Tower" in New York — as well as the immense frustration with his/not his Philharmonie de Paris (“he still despairs at all the corners cut, the mediocre workmanship, the design details that have been quashed, making the façade seem jittery and indistinct”).

Jean Nouvel's super-tall 53W53 MoMA tower is "still an art"

2015-05-18T13:19:00-04:00

Nouvel’s aspirations for 53W53, scheduled for completion in fall 2018, sound almost modest: “It’s going to try to hold its place, [...] It’s going to try to be good enough for New York … it’s going to try to make its own small contribution, and it’s done in a way that ensures this contribution is readable, understandable, and it’s maybe a bit more precious than others. And it’s a little linked to this notion – a fairly disputed notion these days – that architecture is still an art, sometimes.”

Archinect Sessions Episode #26: Modernism - Peru's Common Denominator; A Conversation with Lima Architect Sebastián Bravo

2015-04-23T15:39:00-04:00

This week on the podcast, Paul shares an interview he did in Lima with Sebastián Bravo, a local architect and maker of award-winning pisco. Studying and practicing architecture in a city with a very fresh history of terrorism and ongoing political corruption is no easy feat, and the rapidly urbanized/urbanizing city makes practicing all the more challenging, but Bravo is up to the challenge.

We also briefly discuss a recent workshop Paul attended with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, which took a close look at why enrollment rates at architecture schools are falling, and the stereotypical misunderstandings of what skills high schoolers need to study architecture. In the news, we consider what it means for George Lucas to be building affordable housing in Marin County, whether metal really can move by itself, and briefly look to the deluge of Whitney Museum reviews.

Listen to episode twenty-six of Archinect Sessions, "Modernism - Peru's Common Denominator":

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Jean Nouvel loses court case over 'sabotaged' Philharmonie de Paris

2015-04-17T17:19:00-04:00

Jean Nouvel, the famed French architect, on Thursday lost a court battle against a £280 million Paris concert hall he designed but whose architecture he claimed had been "martyred" and "sabotaged". Mr Nouvel boycotted the January opening of the Philharmonie de Paris, an ultra-modern building in the French capital's eastern Parc de La Vilette, accusing project managers of cutting corners to save money during its completion.

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Jean Nouvel files for court order against Philharmonie de Paris dispute

2015-03-04T18:32:00-05:00

Jean Nouvel applied for a court mandate ordering that his name and image be completely removed from all references to the "sabotaged" Philharmonie de Paris at the Parc de La Vilette. Nouvel boycotted the grand opening of the unfinished 2,400-seat concert venue in January. In a column for Le Monde, Nouvel claimed he was used as a scapegoat for cost overruns and delays and he also wrote about how the venue's premature opening didn't "allow [the] architectural and technical requirements to be respected" (English translation here).

According to recent reports, Nouvel's lawyers state that the architect is not seeking compensation but for modifications to remedy 26 parts of the building that did not comply to his original design. This includes the promenade, foyers, parapets, facades, and acoustic elements of the approximately $427.4 million (£280 million) project.

The court hearing is currently scheduled for April 16.